Re: Debian Sarge via Debian Installer Test Candidate 1

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 08:54:21PM -0700, rick wrote:
> 
> i have installed sarge a couple of times using sarge cd images and
> using the sarge installer beta release 2. it was always successful.
> 

Have you told this to joeyh? He'll be happy... ;-)

> the release of Debian Installer Test Candidate 1 prompted me again to
> install sarge specially with its experimental support for kernel
> 2.6.6. I installed it on the same box. Before this i wiped out debian
> for gentoo just to test it also. 
> 
> after installing the base system, i was eager to install packages
> with apt-get. but almost all packages i tried to install now have
> broken dependencies. i haven't encountered this with sarge installer
> beta release 2. i'm using the same sarge cd set, by the way. 
> 
> would anyone know what i have done wrong ? 
> 

Best to ask debian-devel about this. After all, d-i is *beta*... Also
try debian-boot, there might be some haloween docs regarding the latext
d-i release...

> gentoo runs fine on my pentium 2 box. but it took hours to compile
> just the base system... :(
> 

Before I decided to go with debian, I figured Gentoo would be nice. For
now, not really... though building from source would be good for some
systems, in practice you don't really see the kinks...

Cheers,
Zakame
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